Display device.



A. BURKE.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

APPLlcAloN FILED 1uL Y s, 1914.

Eatented Jan. 23, w17.

A TTOHf/EV ALFRED BURKE, 0F FLUSHING, NEW YORK.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 2119i?.

Application led July 6, 1914. Serial No. 849,183.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LALFRED BURKE, a citizen of the United States, residingat Flushing, in the county of Queens and State of' New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Devices, ofwhich the following is a specication.

My invention relates to an improved device for displaying articles ofmerchandise, and it is designed especially for holding and displayinghair pins.

Celluloid, bone, shell or similar hair pins are usually mounted for saleon display cards, or are packedfin boxes containing several pins andhavingv one of them displayed on the front thereof. rlhe devicesheretofore used in vending hair pins have not been` designed to securelyhold the displayed pins in place, and it has been found that many of thepins are ,lost or damaged in the handling which they receive duringinspection and sale.

The principal objectV of my invention is to provide a display devicehaving novel means for securely holding a hair pin in place thereon andwhich is constructed so that the displayed pin` cannot be accidentallydislodged in handling the device.

I attain the .object Aspecified as well as others not herein enumeratedby means of the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafterdescribed and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure l is a front view of one form of display device embodying myinvention, Fig. 2 is a view of device made in the form of a box blank,Fig. 3 is a view in perspective of the folded bo; blank, and, Fig. 4 isa transverse vertical section thereof, when closed.

My improved device consists of a body portion made of card board orother suitable material having means formed thereon for engaging thehead and the points of `a hair pin. It is constructed so as to secui'elyhold and lock the hair pin in place when it is mounted thereon.

Referring to lthe drawings, 1 represents the body portion of the deviceconsisting preferably of a piece of card board cut in any convenient ordesired shape and' size. In said body are formed two slits, indicatedbyreference characters 2 and 3,.leaving an integral vertical bar orstrip 4 of the maa modification of the terial separating them, whichstrip serves as a retaining member for holding and securing the curvedhead of the pin 5. flhe ends of the slits 2 and 3 are preferably curvedoutwardly, as shown, to strengthen the connection between the strip 4and the body.

Two horizontal bars or strips 6, formed integral with the body portion,are located in position to engage the legs of the pin 5. These stripsare made by forming cuts 7 in the material directly above and below theplace where it is desired to locate the strips.

Extending laterally of the strip 4 are the slits 8, 8, which terminateatpoints located a greater distance apart than the maximum width of thepin so as to form a divided pin-receiving opening of a total lengthsufcient to permit the pin 5 to be freely passed therethrough. Inmounting the pin it is inserted from the back of the .body 1, throughthe opening formed by ysaid slits, into position shown in Fig. 1 withthe legs of the pin caught in the strips 6 and the head thereof engagedby the strip 4. After the pin has been inserted through the slits S, theportions of the card board body surrounding the opening will spring backto their normal position so asto securely hold the head of the pin inplace between said body and the strip 4.

In Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings lf have vice in which the body portion1 is made in the form of ya box blank. With this form lof my invention lam able to securely hold and display one of the pins on the frontthereof', in the manner `heretofore described, and then to fold theparts of the blank so as to form a package or box in which a pluralityof the pins `may be conveniently packed. ln the modified form, the body1 is extended along its sides and also at its top and bottom so as toprovide sufficient stock t0 permit of its being folded into box likeshape after the displayed pin has been secured to the front thereof. Tothis end the side extensions are creased along vertical lines 9, 10, 11and 12 and are then folded inwardly to form the walls and centralpartition of the boxlike package shown in Figs. 3 and 4. rlhe portion aof the blank lying between the pair of creases 9'forms the front wall ofthe box; the portions b between the creases 9 and 10 the side walls; theportions c between the creases 10 and 11 each of which is approximatelyone half the width of the front portion a, together form the rear wall;the portions l between the creases l1 and 12 form the central partition;and the end portions e, form flanges which are adapted to abut againstthe front Wall of the box when in folded position and serve to hold thepartition d in place. 'Ihe top andbottom extension of the body portionl, are each out to form two side flaps f which are adapted to be foldedinwardly in overlapped relation so as to close the open ends of the box,and a cover Hap g having a bifurcated extension which is adapted to. befolded down upon the flaps f to close the box and to hold the foldedparts thereof together. The extended portion of the cover g ts into thespace between the rear edges of the flaps f and the rear wall e of thebox so that the divided parts thereof will exert a clamping action onthe opposite sides of the partition d and thereby hold the folded boxtogether without necessity of gluing or pasting any of its parts. Whenthe pins are packed in the box they are supported by and iide upon thepartition d as best seen in In the foregoing specification I havedescribed what I believe to be the best mode of applying my invention,but it will be understood that the construction and arrangement of thevarious parts may be modified from that illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings without departing from the scope of my invention.

LEISA@ What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

l. A display device for hair pins comprising a blank provided with apair of slits forming a holder between them for the head of a pin, slitspair of slits and terminating at points located a greater distance apartthan the maximum width of the pin, and holders for the legs of the pin,said lateral slits forming a divided opening through which the pin ispassed into engagement with the holders in mounting it on the blank.

`2. A display device for hair pins comprising a card provided at itsupper portion with a pair of longitudinal slits having outturned endsand forming between them a vertical strip for engaging and holding thehead of a hair pin, slits extending laterally of the longitudinal slitsand forming a divided pin-receiving opening of greater length than thewidth of the pin whereby the pin may be mounted on the card by beingpassed from the rear through said opening, and pairs of transverse slitshaving outturned ends at the lower portion of the card and formingbetween them horizontal strips for engaging and holding the legs of thepin. Y

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto alixed subscribing witnesses.

'ALFRED BURKE.

Witnessed by- LESTER F. DITTENHOEFER, RosAMoND M. COANE.

my signature in the presence of two extending laterally of said

